Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Let the field to your neighbour for tatties.
Contractor wont spray field
- Thread starter dundee dave
- Start date
- Location
- Somewhere in time
- Location
- West Kent
A really good point.
Would the neighbour not be open to doing it themselves to make sure its done right?
- Location
- South Wales UK
Can't be bad ground if next door grows spuds can it?
ollie989898
Member
This is what I don't understand. Complains contractor won't apply deadly chemicals. Then goes on to diatribe against deadly chemicals.
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
You won’t find a seed tattie grower putting roundup through his own sprayer.
Sandy
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
They all do around here just wash it out properly
Cant see a problem just watch the way the wind is blowing and miss a tramline next too the Tattys
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
No they don’t. When we used to grow we didn’t. We now let out some land for spuds and he won’t spray roundup through his machine, he gets someone else in. Would there not be an issue for insurance of a contractor if he knowing sprays roundup next to a field of potatoes anyway?
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
From what I’ve seen most sprayer operators don’t go the full hog with ppe, contractor who comes here uses gloves whilst handling chemical but otherwise normally clothed.
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
I can’t see how there could possibly be an issue spraying roundup on a field next to potatoes, the potato grower doesn’t own the field so has no right whatsoever to control what happens on that field.
Of course spray drift out of the intended field is another matter
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Because you are liable for where you spray falls. Be it neighbouring field or watercourse.
Sandy
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
They do around here no problem with insurance either
ollie989898
Member
I have known farms that have a dedicated sugar beet sprayer that only sprays beet. If doing a large acreage of potatoes I suspect many farms will take the same approach. It's not worth the risk. I'm not saying it is impossible to do safely but if they have a large acreage of spuds they might well have a dedicated machine for it.
I bet some of the biggest and most expensive spraying mistakes have happened in spuds.
I bet some of the biggest and most expensive spraying mistakes have happened in spuds.
Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
But that’s a case of spray not landing on its intended target and would be a matter for a public liability claim, the same as any other spray drift causing a problem or any other crop in a neighbouring field.
Unless someone knows otherwise there are no laws or regulations I’m aware of preventing roundup being sprayed on a field next to potatoes.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
The field needs leveling, do it now and also kill the weeds... discs etc.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Wind,speed ,temp.,nozzle type,pressure etc etc, all any PA1 PA2 operator knows,how to or not, treat situations(or should)?
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
There’s not. It’s the value of the claim that’s the issue. Scamming a bit of OSR or wheat next door is not a massive cost compared to seed potatoes. Especially as the damage isn’t seen until they are planted in the ground next year.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Wiping out a seed potato crop is mega money,
Not like curling a crappy field of osr a wee bit.
I wouldnt go near it with yours.
There is no need to spray this field at all, andif its rough ploughed i wouldnt take asprayer near it
dundee dave
Member
sold field --- incoming man wants it cleared prior to grassing as he has cattle, the contractor wont spray it as per poss tatties next door he tells me, i have never used chemicals and never will i just wondered if what i was told was usual-- got the answer job done simples as they say.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Let incoming man sort it